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Plourde, Joseph Jacques Richard Ovide (Flight Cadet)

Killed in Flying Accident 1956-05-18

Birth Date: 1936-11-01 (age 19)

Born: Rivire du Loup, Quebec

Son of Joseph and Marie Anne Plourde of Montreal, Quebec. Brother of Georges, Rita, and Marguerite.

Home: Rivire du Loup, Quebec

Enlistment: Montreal, Quebec

Enlistment Date: 1955-09-30

Service
RCAF
Unit
2 AOS- Air Observer School
Base
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Rank
Flight Cadet
Marshal
Air Chief MarshalA/C/M
Air MarshalA/M
Air Vice MarshalA/V/M
Air CommodoreA/C
Group CaptainG/C
Wing CommanderW/C
Squadron LeaderS/L
Flight LieutenantF/L
Flying OfficerF/O
Pilot OfficerP/O
Warrant Officer 1st ClassWO1
Warrant Officer 2nd ClassWO2
Flight SergeantFS
SergeantSGT
CorporalCPL
Senior AircraftmanSAC
Leading AircraftmanLAC
Aircraftman 1st ClassAC1
Aircraftman 2nd ClassAC2
Position
Service Numbers
240393
Three other personnel from 2 AOS were also killed.

Canada Source Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Burial
Google Map Baron De Hirsch Cemetery, Canada
Grave 2269; Plot 3412; Section M3412

Crew on Expeditor Mk. 3N 1491

Beechcraft Expeditor

(RCAF Photo) (Source Harold A Skaarup web page)
Beechcraft CT-128 Expeditor Mk. 3TM (Serial No. A-734), (Serial No. CA-134), RCAF (Serial No. 1534), coded AO-N, Air Transport Command.

The Beechcraft Model 18 (or "Twin Beech", as it is also known) is a 6- to 11-seat, twin-engined, low-wing, tailwheel light aircraft manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. Continuously produced from 1937 to November 1969 (over 32 years, a world record at the time), over 9,000 were built, making it one of the world's most widely used light aircraft. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, cargo aircraft, and passenger airliner on tailwheels, nosewheels, skis, or floats, it was also used as a military aircraft.

During and after World War II, over 4,500 Beech 18s were used in military service—as light transport, light bomber (for China), aircrew trainer (for bombing, navigation, and gunnery), photo-reconnaissance, and "mother ship" for target drones—including Royal Canadian Airforce (RCAF), United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) C-45 Expeditor, AT-7 Navigator, and AT-11 Kansan; and United States Navy (USN) UC-45J Navigator, SNB-1 Kansan, and others. In World War II, over 90% of USAAF bombardiers and navigators and pilots trained in these aircraft.

In the early postwar era, the Beech 18 was the pre-eminent "business aircraft" and "feeder airliner". Besides carrying passengers, its civilian uses have included aerial spraying, sterile insect release, fish stocking, dry-ice cloud seeding, aerial firefighting, air-mail delivery, ambulance service, numerous movie productions, skydiving, freight, weapon- and drug-smuggling, engine testbed, skywriting, banner towing, and stunt aircraft. Wikipedia




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CASPIR Aircraft Groups:
RCAF On Strength (415), Canadian Aircraft Losses (21), RCN On Strength (1)
last update: 2021-10-16 20:08:00

Expeditor Mk. 3N 1491

With No. 2 Air Navigation School at Winnipeg when it crashed at Winnipeg on 18 May 1956. Flying Officer F.P. Coyle, Flying Officer J.T. King, Pilot Officer B. Cox, Flying Officer A.G. Mulholland, and Cadet d'aviation J.J.R.O. Plourde killed.
1951-12-21 Taken on Strength 2019-08-20
1956-06-08 Struck off Strength Struck off after Category A crash at Winnipeg, Manitoba in May 1956. 2019-08-20

2 AOS- Air Observer School (2 Air Observer School)

Air Observers were later called "navigators". For recruits in this stream, the training path after ITS was 8 weeks at an Air Observer School (AOS), 1 month at a Bombing & Gunnery School, and finally 1 month at a Navigation School. The Air Observer schools were operated by civilians under contract to the RCAF. For example, Nos. 7, 8, and 9 were run by CP Airlines. However, the instructors were RCAF. The basic navigation techniques throughout the war years were dead reckoning and visual pilotage, and the tools were the aeronautical chart, magnetic compass, watch, trip log, pencil, Douglas protractor, and Dalton Navigational Computer. They trained in the Avro Anson.
NO2 AOS Edmonton 1941

Formed at Edmonton, Alberta - 5 August 1940

  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Edmonton Alberta

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  • Disbanded at Edmonton, Alberta - 14 July 1944
    Re-formed at Winnipeg, Manitoba 15 November 1955
  • RCAF Roundel RCAF.Info - RCAF Station Winnipeg Manitoba

  • 1940-08-05 Primary Location Edmonton AB Canada Originally named Blatchford Field eventually became Edmonton Municipal Airport CYXD closed in November 2013 and developed into Edmonton community of Blatchford.

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